Concord sofware company Adelja Learning gets $285K in fundingA New Hampshire software company that has created the Word Voyage website designed to help students in grades four through 12 with vocabulary and grammar has received $285,000 in equity funding out of $500,000 offering, according to federal documents.

Homeowners now better off than renters?More than half of all renters pay more than a third of their income in rent, while the number of homeowners shelling out 30 percent or more of their paychecks on mortgage payments stands at a much lower 37.4 percent.

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ZZ Tops Billy Gibbons talks techWe caught up with the musician, via a Google+ Hangout, in a Manchester, N.H., hotel room, as ZZ Top was starting its 2012 summer tour. Friday, the band will be in Winston-Salem, N.C., at the Lawrence Joel Coliseum.